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InfoWeek on Future Search
Good roundup of emerging technologies in this week's InformationWeek. (thanks, Nathan)…
Month: April 2005
Google Current
Back in 2001 I met with Eric Schmidt and suggested that Google Zeitgiest could be turned into a killer media company. Well, I very much doubt that had anything to do with the news today that Zeitgeist is powering Al Gore's new Current cable channel, but I'm pleased just…
Back in 2001 I met with Eric Schmidt and suggested that Google Zeitgiest could be turned into a killer media company. Well, I very much doubt that had anything to do with the news today that Zeitgeist is powering Al Gore’s new Current cable channel, but I’m pleased just the same. Gore’s channel will have Google segments built from search data. Very cool.
From Search Engine Journal’s coverage:
“Google Current,” built using samplings of popular Google search data, including from Google Zeitgeist, complements the free-flowing pod format with news updates each half-hour. Thirty seconds to three minutes in length, these segments buck conventional news practices by reporting not on what media editors decide is “news,” but on the topics people are actually searching for right now. So news isn’t what the network thinks you should know, but what the world is searching to learn.
Read MoreAmazon Buys BookSurge
So why do I care? I'm fascinated with Google Print, and also with companies like QOOP, who provide print on demand (they do the print edition of Searchblog, at left). To my mind, there really is no reason why Google can't become the world's largest bookseller, simply by adding…
So why do I care? I’m fascinated with Google Print, and also with companies like QOOP, who provide print on demand (they do the print edition of Searchblog, at left).
To my mind, there really is no reason why Google can’t become the world’s largest bookseller, simply by adding a “Print, Ship, and Bill me” button to any book they have in the Google Print database. Given that Amazon has already done a massive book scanning effort of its own with Search Inside the Book, the purchase of BookSurge is interesting.
Link to the InternetNews story.
Google Video From UofW
A University of Washington video "Behind the Scenes at Google." Found on /….
Broadbandwagon
Om Malik has new stats on broadband adoption in 2004. The more bband, the better for all of us……
Om Malik has new stats on broadband adoption in 2004. The more bband, the better for all of us…
Yahoo Launches FareChase Hotel Beta
Yahoo has launched a hotels extension of its recently acquired FareChase travel search engine….
Yahoo has launched a hotels extension of its recently acquired FareChase travel search engine.
Levy on Google
Steven gives an overview of where the company is now in Newsweek. Intersting quote about ads in Google News from Eric: In order to let the products develop organically, sometimes Google forgoes revenues in the short term. "It takes years to become profitable in terms of total dollars invested,…
Steven gives an overview of where the company is now in Newsweek. Intersting quote about ads in Google News from Eric:
In order to let the products develop organically, sometimes Google forgoes revenues in the short term. “It takes years to become profitable in terms of total dollars invested, but we don’t even think about it,” he adds. “When we started Google News, we forgot to put ads in it. It’s not deliberate. We actually forgot.”
Yahoo’s New Index
Yahoo's search team announced a couple of days agothat they were implementing an index update. Why is this noteworthy? It's a first – from what I can tell, the first time an engine has given the ecology of webmasters and publishers a heads up that a change was coming….
Yahoo’s search team announced a couple of days agothat they were implementing an index update. Why is this noteworthy? It’s a first – from what I can tell, the first time an engine has given the ecology of webmasters and publishers a heads up that a change was coming. Cool.
Battelle the Grump
OK, some of you have given me shit for having no sense of humor regarding Google's April's Fool post. Sorry. It was funny, OK? FUNNY. But…well, I guess I'm overanalyzing. I'll be on vacation week after next, and I promise, I'll come back with my priorities straight. Meantime, Yahoo's…
OK, some of you have given me shit for having no sense of humor regarding Google’s April’s Fool post. Sorry. It was funny, OK? FUNNY. But…well, I guess I’m overanalyzing. I’ll be on vacation week after next, and I promise, I’ll come back with my priorities straight.
Meantime, Yahoo’s Slacker spoof was also funny. I liked this line, clearly a dig at Google Print:
Well, scanners are cheap these days. Really cheap. When you combine a few $60 scanners with some willing Ph.D interns, we expect the entire book scanning project to take no more than 4 weeks and $6,000.
Read MoreGoogle Gulp Pokes Fun at PR Issues
Google has a tradition of April Fool's jokes, my favorite is PigeonRank. This year it's the "Google Gulp," a tongue-in-cheek tour through Google's product development process, with jabs (or shout outs, hard to say) at Schmidt, Urs Hoelzle, Stanford PhDs, and the rave culture. In short, Google Gulp is…
Google has a tradition of April Fool’s jokes, my favorite is PigeonRank. This year it’s the “Google Gulp,” a tongue-in-cheek tour through Google’s product development process, with jabs (or shout outs, hard to say) at Schmidt, Urs Hoelzle, Stanford PhDs, and the rave culture. In short, Google Gulp is a fantasy drink which makes people smarter. (Maybe even as smart as the people at Google, one dares to dream…).
The descriptive text for this spoof reads like a exorcism-by-humor for some of Google’s most vexing PR issues – from terminal Beta to privacy. Read through it, it speaks volumes on the culture. Some of the lines read as if the founders themselves were involved in the creative process. To wit:
…any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it.
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